Samara Airlines

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Samara Airlines
Samara Airlines logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
E5BRZBeryoza
Founded1961 (founded as Aeroflot, 1992 as Samara Airlines
Ceased operations2008
Hubs Kurumoch International Airport
Alliance AiRUnion
Fleet size24
Destinations29
Parent company State Property Committee (51%)
Headquarters Samara, Russia
Website http://www.samara-airlines.ru/

Samara Airlines was an airline based in Samara, Russia. It operated scheduled and charter flights from Samara to destinations in Russia and other countries (mainly within the CIS) and charter flights to Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Spain, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. Its main base was at Kurumoch International Airport (KUF).

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Samara Airlines was a member of the Russian AiRUnion alliance.

History

The Kuybyshev Aviation Enterprise was established in 1961 and on this basis 65 Squadron was formed and later transformed into Kuybyshev Joint Aviation Squadron (KuAO), Kuybyshev being the Soviet name of Samara. The privatisation of KuAO in 1993 resulted in the establishment of the Joint Stock Company Samara Airlines. It is owned by the State Property Committee (51%) and private and corporate holdings (49%). The airline used the call-sign "beryoza" (birch tree).

Loading food onto a TU-134A3 at Kurumoch airport in Samara. RIAN archive 134017 Samara airport.jpg
Loading food onto a TU-134A3 at Kurumoch airport in Samara.

It had suspended operations at the end of September 2008 due to the AiRUnion collapse.

Services

As of September 2005, Samara Airlines operated the following services:

Fleet

Samara Airlines Tu-154M Samara Airlines T154 RA-85823.jpg
Samara Airlines Tu-154M

The Samara Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of May 2008):

Samara Airlines
AircraftTotalPassengersNotes
Ilyushin Il-76TD 2
Tupolev Tu-134A 6
Tupolev Tu-154B2 2
Tupolev Tu-154M 10
Yakovlev Yak-42 4
Total24

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